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...composers who contributed to Ensemble (and who sat next to the players of their segments, urging them on) were all Stockhausen disciples who went to Darmstadt specifically to work with him. This year's workshop concerts were also dominated by Stockhausen creations, especially Microphonie I, in which rubber suction cups, an electric massager, ice-cube tongs and wineglasses were scraped against a huge gong, while the resulting sounds were processed by two microphones, two electronic filters and a potentiometer...
...elite private clubs pour le planning familial enjoy their benefits; again, abortion is rampant, as it is in Italy and an endless list of other, supposedly civilized nations. In most Iron Curtain countries, abortion is discouraged but permitted, and performed quickly and safely with a Soviet-invented vacuum suction device. Dr. Guttmacher calls abortion "the most severe pandemic disease in the world today...
...radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective way to get rid of it was to cut out a disk of flesh around the fang marks...
...situation is certainly no better so far this year. Just last week Irish electrical workers walked out, causing wide spread shutdowns on everything from telephones to electrically operated hospital suction pumps (one poor chap suffered a long interruption in a major operation-being Irish, he survived). At the same time, members of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association were striking and picketing government buildings in Dublin...
Pull & Push. Oxygenated blood from DeRudder's lungs then flowed normally into his left auricle. From there, up to 80% of it was drawn by suction into the pump chamber, held for an instant by a check valve, then pushed by the pressure of the pump's downstroke into the aorta, which supplies all the body's arteries. The rest took nature's course. It passed through the newly implanted artificial mitral valve into the ventricle, which continued to beat, and out into the aorta...